Go, also known as Weiqi in Chinese, Igo in Japanese, and Baduk in Korean, is a strategic, zero sum, deterministic board game of perfect information originating in ancient China, before 2000 BC. The objective of the game is to control a larger territory than one's opponent by placing one's stones so they cannot be surrounded and captured by the opponent, but can surround and capture any stones the opponent plays inside one's own territory. Music to Go is an installation that allows people to play Go on an electronic game board, collects and analyzes the game data and generates music synchronously from the game. The board can detect the positions and colors of the stones by photo-sensors imbedded in the board. It then sends the game data to a computer, which does all the further processing and music generating work. In particular, the computer does pattern recognition, data processing, and algorithm composition. After processing the game data, the computer plays back sound to speakers surrounding the players.

Shan Jiang is a 2nd year ACE student pursuing an MS of ICS degree in UCI. She has a B.E. in Electronic Information Engineering at Tianjin University in China. Before coming to UCI she worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Acoustics of Chinese Academy of Science. Her main research interests include human-computer interaction, signal processing, algorithmic composition and electronic music devices.

Music to Go is an interactive game sonification system that allows people to play Go on an electronic game board, collects and analyzes the game data and generates music synchronously according to the game.